Studie untersucht, welche Rolle geografische Verteilung von Privatschulen für Besuch selbiger spielt – Privatschulen im Osten Deutschlands breiter verteilt als im Westen – Bei Nähe zum Wohnort schicken privilegierte Haushalte ihre Kinder eher auf Privatschulen, einkommensschwache und bildungsferne Haushalte jedoch nicht Immer mehr Schüler*innen in Deutschland gehen auf Privatschulen – aber längst ...
Following a landmark court ruling in 2005, more than half of Germany’s universities started charging tuition fees, which were later abolished in a staggered manner. We exploit the fact that even students who were already enrolled had to start paying fees. We show that fees increase study effort and degree completion among these students. However, fees also decrease first-time university enrollment ...
The INSIGHTS project aims to support and promote the communication of research and to contribute to its transfer to the public. INSIGHTS is funded by the Leibniz Gemeinschaft. INSIGHTS has two main pillars, a platform of exchange between researchers, policymakers, the media, and the public, and the provision of professional guidance and formal training on how to interact with the public and...
This paper considers an unavoidable feature of the school environment, class rank. What are the long-run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data on all public-school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third-grade academic rank, conditional on achievement and classroom fixed effects, have higher subsequent test scores, are more likely to ...